Tuesday, August 27, 2013

San Miguel County in New Mexico joins
Valencia County as the latest in the state to issue marriage licenses to
same-sex couples. San Miguel County Clerk Melanie Rivera has confirmed
that she will issue new gender neutral marriage licenses later this
week, though couples who don’t want to wait can receive a license today:
Rivera also stated that couples who did not wish to wait could apply
and receive a license today. Until the new licenses arrive Rivera will
make the changes to the old forms by hand.

More than 100 people lined up in
Albuquerque Tuesday morning as the clerk in New Mexico’s most populous
county began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. The
clerk opened her office to the excited crowd at 8 a.m., and a mass
wedding was planned at noon in Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza. Patricia
Catlett, a 61-year-old graphic designer from Albuquerque, and her
partner of 25 years, Karen Schmiege, a 69-year-old retired librarian,
were the first to get their license in Bernalillo County. “I am so
excited, I can’t stand it,” Schmiege said as they signed their papers.As the couple walked out of the booth
where they received their license, the crowd applauded and cheered. The
two raised their hands, and the crowd responded by putting their fists
in the air. “I want her to take me to Costa Rica,” Schmiege said. “She
promised.” Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver began
recognizing same-sex unions after State District Judge Alan Malott on
Monday declared gay marriage legal, saying New Mexico’s constitution
prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Tricycle Daily DharmaAugust 26, 2013

Waking up to our Responsibility

As
Buddhists, we might see the task of preserving the world’s food system
as entailed by our commitment to the twofold good: to achieving our own
good from a pragmatic concern for our own long-term welfare, and to
promoting the good of others from a compassionate concern for those whom
our actions may affect, whether they be our contemporaries or
generations as yet unborn.

- Bhikkhu Bodhi, "Into the Fire: Food in the Age of Climate Change"

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